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L. MILLER.

PORTABLE HAY STAGKING MACHINE.

Patented Jan. 8, 1889.

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LEROY MILLER, OF ALBIA, IOIVA, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO IVILLIAM F. \VALKER, OF SAME PLACE.

PORTABLE HAY-STACKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,045, dated January 8, 1889.

Application filed April 23, 1888 $erial No. 271,627. (No model.) i

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEROY MILLER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Albia, in the county of Monroe and State of Iowa, have invented a Portable Hay-Stacking Machine, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My object is to save time and labor in stacking hay and straw; and my invention consists in the construction and combination of a portable derrick, an inclined plane formed in detachable sections, a hay binder and carrier, and ropes and pulleys, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which A A are the uprights, and A and A he cross-pieces, of two frames hinged together at their top ends. The lower cross-pieces are about fifteen feet long and rigidly fixed to the lower ends of the uprights and their ends rounded off so they will serve as runners in moving the derrick without lowering it.

B is a metal rod extended through the top ends of the two frames to hinge them together in such a manner that they can be folded together or taken apart to economize space in storing and shipping.

C C are wooden strips fixed to the inside faces and lower edges of the parallel uprights A of one of the frames to serve as bearers upon which to place an inclined plane.

1 and 2 represent a series of detachable sections of an inclined frame. Theie sec tions are composed of boards fixed to crosspieces in such a manner that the ends of the cross-pieces can be placed upon the bearers O in the manner shown to form an inclined frame upon which to elevate hay. The height of the inclined frame can be increased as the stack is built by adding sections on top. Dowel-pins in the top edges of the sections and corresponding bores in their lower edges hold the sections together when placed upon the bearers C. Metal clasps 0 fixed to the sides of a section to engage the uprights A, also aid in keeping the inclined frame firm upon the uprights.

D is a cross-bar and the base-piece of my hay binder and carrier, made of a straight piece of wood about six (6) feet long placed upon brackets D fixed to the lower section of the inclined frame. f are rings connected with the cross-bar D by means of ropes g.

h is a ring connected with the rings f and ropes g by means of ropes 76, that are jointly fastened to the ring h and then singly passed through the rings f and then upward over the inclined frame and over the pulleys m, attached to the rod B at the top of the derrick, and then jointly connected with a ring, a.

r is a rope fastened to the ring 11 and passed downward and over a directing-pulley at tached to the base of the derrick in such a manner that a horse can be hitched to its end.

8 is a lever pivoted'to the cross-bar D of the binder and carrier. The short arm of this lever terminates in a hook. The end of the long arm has a rope, 3, attached thereto and then passed upward and outward over the cross-bar D in such a manner that when the carrier is elevated with a load the free end of the rope will hang down within reach of a person on the ground.

To operate my invention when set up as illustrated, I spread the binder upon the ground and place the ring, h over a fixed stake, place loose hay upon the ropes g by dragging it on with a horse-rake, or in any suitable way, and then lift the ring from the stake and hang it upon the hook on the end of the lover .9. By means of a horse hitched to the end of the rope r, I then draw the ropes 7c tight around the hay, and by so doing bind and lift the hay with the cross-bar D, so that the hay and binder and carrier will be jointly elevated upon the inclined frame as the horse advances, and when it passes over the top of the inclined frame it will swing inward over the stack. By pulling the rope s, I vibrate the lever s and slip the hook on its end out of the ring h, as required to open the binder and to let the hay drop, to build a stack within the base of the movable derrick by bunches of hay thus elevated in succession.

I claim as my invention- 1. The hay binder and carrier composed of a bar, D, having a pivoted lever, s, the ropes g, the rings f, 72-, and n, and the ropes kand r, in connection with a derrick having an inclined frame, and pulleys m, to operate in the manner set forth.

2. The uprights A, having fixed strips 0,

and (-onnoclod with owvsspiocos to produce a l n, ropes g, 71-, and "1', and pulleys p1,:urra-11ged rigid il'l'zune, an socond i'l-zuno 1 o11struct0d in and combined to opol'ato 1n the 11121111161.- Set 10 tho some nmnnor and hinged to the top ends forth.

oi: the upllghts A, m1 lnchnod i'l'mno iol'med LEROY MILLER 5 111' detzu-lmblo SOCUUUS adapted to be placed upon the fixed strips 01. bearings 0,5 hay \Yitnesses:

pillow and carrier comprising a bar, D,112L\' GEO. N. STAMM,

ing' a pivoted lover or hook, 5', rings f, 71 and L. T. RICHMOND. 

